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Web engineering : Wikipedia

Web engineering : Wikipedia. Irina Karpova ikarpova@uni-koblenz.de Univ ersität Koblenz-Landau 29. Januar 2013. Overview. Wikipedia as online community: Purpose Aims of Wikipedia Software Wiki Way of Web Guidelines and policies Wikipedians. Wikipedia.

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Web engineering : Wikipedia

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  1. Web engineering:Wikipedia Irina Karpova ikarpova@uni-koblenz.de Universität Koblenz-Landau 29. Januar 2013

  2. Overview • Wikipedia as online community: • Purpose • Aims of Wikipedia • Software • Wiki Way of Web • Guidelines and policies • Wikipedians

  3. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page screenshot taken on 22.01.13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About screenshot taken on 23.01.13

  4. Online community Communication among a group of people ‘‘who come together for a particular purpose, and who are guided by policies (including norms and rules) and supported by software’’ (by Preece and Maloney-Krichmar (2005))

  5. Model of Wikipedia development by Patton (2002)

  6. Visual representation of the elements of Wikipedia as an online community by Zhao and Bishop (2011)

  7. Overview • Wikipedia as online community: • Purpose • Aims of Wikipedia • Software • Wiki Way of Web • Guidelines and policies • Wikipedians • http://www.jamesyang.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/golf-world-fight.jpg

  8. Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us [1] Our goal with Wikipedia is to create a free encyclopedia; indeed, the largest encyclopedia in history, both in terms of breadth and in terms of depth. We also want Wikipedia to be a reliable resource [1] Denis Diderot[3] Larry Sanger[2]

  9. Oxford English Dictionary: A literary work containing extensive information on all branches of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order [4] http://www.oed.com/search?q=encyclopaedia screenshot taken on 22.01.13 Encyclopedia Britannica: Reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner [5]

  10. Aims of Wikipedia • Gain all valuable knowledge in comfortable reading form • Provide free content via GNUFreeDocumentationLicense and Creative Commons • Everyone could edit and create articles • Be neutral

  11. Overview • Wikipedia as online community: • Purpose • Aims of Wikipedia • Software • Wiki Way of Web • Guidelines and policies • Wikipedians • http://www.jamesyang.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/golf-world-fight.jpg

  12. „The simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users tofreely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser”[6] Wiki way of Web Wikimedia foundations’ projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiNode screenshot taken on22.01.13 http://c2.com/w4/wikibase/?FrontPage screenshot taken on 22.01.13 Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki [7]

  13. Wiki way of web: software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software screenshots taken on 22.01.13

  14. Wiki way of web: software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard/Ready_for_submission; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vanilla_software&action=history; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Test screenshots taken on 23.01.13

  15. Overview • Wikipedia as online community: • Purpose • Aims of Wikipedia • Software • Wiki Way of Web • Guidelines and policies • Wikipedians • http://www.jamesyang.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/golf-world-fight.jpg

  16. Neutral point of view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_antenna; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_valve; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Laden; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber Screenshots taken on 22.01.13

  17. Wikipedians: types Regarding their user rights, there are such user groups [8]: • Administrators: 1,458 • Account creators: 154 • Autopatrollers: 2,871 • Bots: 730 • Bureaucrats: 35 • Checkusers: 40 • Confirmed users: 292 • Edit filter managers: 158 • File movers: 333 • Founders: 1 • Importers: 1 • IP block exemptions: 401 • Oversighters: 39 • Researchers: 8 • Reviewers: 5,741 • Rollbackers: 4,772 • Stewards: 0 • Transwiki importers: 0

  18. Increase of polices’ descriptions(from Butler, Joyce, Pike (2008))

  19. Which user actions are regulated? [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines (also on the next pages: screenshots taken on 25.01.13)

  20. Which user actions are regulated? I disapprove! Dear Sir, I think your article is a pure garbage!

  21. Which user actions are regulated?

  22. Simplified Wikipedia consensus flowchart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus screenshot taken on 25.01.13

  23. Wikipedia vs. Britannica Wiki: 162 errors EB: 123 errors D.I. Mendeleev, co-creator of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements 13th or 14th child in the family? [10]

  24. Power of community http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders screenshots taken on 20.01.13 and 22.01.13

  25. Links • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose • Image source: http://www.geek.com/gearlog/images/larry-sanger-wikipedia.jpg • Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Portrait_de_Denis_Diderot_en_robe_de_chambre.jpg/220px-Portrait_de_Denis_Diderot_en_robe_de_chambre.jpg • http://www.oed.com/search?q=encyclopaedia • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/186603/encyclopaedia • http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki • Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ward_Cunningham_-_Commons-1.jpg • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#cite_note-2 • Image source: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24340.0;attach=52304;image • Image source: http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/factotem/images/Mendeleev_home.jpg

  26. References • Preece, J., and Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2005). Online communities: Design, theory, and practice. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4), article 1. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/preece.html • Brian Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, and Jacqueline Pike. 2008. Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1101-1110. • XiaoliZhao ,M. J. Bishop (2011). Understanding and supporting online communities of practice: lessons learned from Wikipedia. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11423-011-9204-7?LI=true#page-1 • Todd Holloway, MiranBozicevic, Katy Börner. 2007. Analyzing and visualizing the semantic coverage of Wikipedia and its authors: Research Articles. Submitted to Complexity, Special issue on Understanding Complex Systems. http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0512085 • Jim Giles. Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head. In: Nature 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005), DOI: 10.1038/438900a.

  27. Thank you for your attention!

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